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With gas and batons, French police put an end to the takeover of the historic Sorbonne University

Students protesting the new law allowing the government to employ up to two years to young people under 26 and fire them without compensation.

The police entered the Sorbonne at 4 yesterday morning, where at least 300 students occupied the amphitheater and the central courtyard. At the piano, a student ran a Mozart concerto when riot police advanced on the barricade.

"We are not only job security, financial independence from our parents, dignity and justice pay for" without papers ". Do not treat us as disposable labor. Study years, we are modern, educated. Why us? "Insisted Florian, a philosophy student and a leader of the protest.

The police entered through a back door in middle of the night. The chase ended in the street, which was closed to traffic. The students of the Sorbonne were not alone. According to them, other 45 universities on strike and taken. The government believes they are actually 8, and 25 others "are disrupted."
As of Friday afternoon, occupation looked like a picnic day of spring but under a freezing cold and pouring rain. The claims were different to the "demand the impossible" from the days of Danny the Red. It was most dramatically realistic: they wanted job security and a future. The "squatters" were hungry and without money. Until then the greatest act repressive police had been to prohibit the "delivery" of baguettes, a joint owner of a restaurant trying to do through a window.

Full story at Deadspin.